PHNOM PENH, July 11 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia's garment and footwear manufacturers on Wednesday agreed to add 10 U.S. dollars to the monthly wage of the workers in the country's garment and footwear industries.
The agreement between the manufacturers and union leaders was reached under the negotiation of Minister of Labor Vong Sauth.
According to the deal, the manufacturers agreed to provide 7 U. S. dollars a month for house rent or transport fee and another 3 U. S. dollars as attendance bonus for garment and footwear workers.
The wage hike negotiation was made after the unions warned late last month that they would stage a large-scale protest in August to demand salaries hike.
Nang Sothy, co-chair of the Government-Private Working Group on Industrial Relations, said the negotiations were held at the behest of Prime Minister Hun Sen.
The country has about 700 garment and footwear factories, employing some 650,000 workers.
With the increased amount, from September 1 onwards, a worker will receive the monthly minimum salary of 73 U.S. dollars plus 10 U.S. dollar attendance bonus.
The garment industry is Cambodia's largest foreign exchange earner. Last year, the sector exported products worth 4.24 billion U.S. dollars, up 25 percent from a year earlier.
2 comments:
The Vietcong slave mother fuckers want to compare dirt poor Cambodia to USA? ahahhah
You Vietcong slave mother fuckers want to work from 7am to 6pm just to get pay $61 a month? Can you Vietcong slave mother fuckers raise their family for $61 a month?
This is worse than prison labor! Cambodian workers want a job but not a fucken job to make them work as slave and prisoner! So far Cambodian workers got a raw deal and they can work until they die and they still cannot escape poverty or even to have a decent life and I am only talking about the poor working class! It seems that these dirt poor Cambodian workers have only two options that are they work to live and live to work!
I support Rong Chhun for his fight to have a decent living wage for dirt poor Cambodian workers!
JE DIS NON POUR CETTE MIETTE DE PAIN POUR CES PAUVRES INNOCENES EMPLOYÉS CAMBODGIENS VEUILLEZ RAISONABLE MR LE PREMIER MINISTRE HUN SEN POUR 73 DOOLARS PAR MOIS EST CE QUE VOUS OU VOS PROCHES PEUVENT VIVRE AVEC CETTE MIETTE VOYONS C'EST IMPOSSIBLE ALORS , DONNE LUI MINIMUM POUR 150 DOLLARDS PAR MOIS PEUT ETRE RAISONNABLE CAR, CES EMPLYÉS TRAVAILLENT TROP FORT ET EXTREMEMENT DIFFICILES .JE VOUS REMERCI BEAUCOUP DE VOTRE COMPRÉHENSION .
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